Wounded Prey

DESCRIPTIONIt’s time to finish what he started… Book #1 in the Farrell & Kearns Series

A young girl is snatched in broad daylight from outside her school and later found brutally murdered and hanging from a tree. When recently retired San Francisco Police Inspector, Bob Farrell, sees this on the news, he realizes his worst nightmare has just come true. The same brutal killer a government agency stopped him from putting away twenty years before is once more on the loose.

As the killer wreaks a trail of blood and destruction across North America, Bob Farrell teams up with rookie cop Kevin Kearns and sets out to track down their lethal prey. But Farrell & Kearns are not playing by the rules any more than the killer is, and soon the FBI have all of them in their sights…

A visceral and heart-wrenching cross between No Country For Old Men and Silence of the Lambs, this is an exhilarating debut from a thrillingly authentic author.

Published 2015

REVIEWS

“With Wounded Prey, Sean Lynch delivers a hell for leather, wild ride of a debut with the “been there done that” authenticity that lifts it above other thrillers. I just added Farrell and Kearns to my short-list of favourite characters, and Vernon Slocum to my worst nightmares! Think ‘First Blood’ meets ‘No Country For Old Men’.”

Matt Hilton, bestselling author of the Joe Hunter series.

“The characters are all really well fleshed out and by the end of the book I felt like I knew them all really well. Farrell and Kearns may well become one of my favourite crime fighting duos….This is one of the best crime writing debuts I have seen in a very long time and I will definitely be keeping an eye out for future releases. Sean Lynch is most certainly a writer to watch.”

“Wounded Prey, Lynch's first novel, introduces a pair of investigators that I hope will be around for a long, long time: retired San Francisco Police Inspector Bob Farrell and Story County (Iowa) Deputy Sheriff Kevin Kearns…In "Wounded Prey," the writing sparkles.”

“The hunt for Slocum is extremely gritty and brutal, and Lynch certainly pulls no punches in telling the story from a variety of different perspectives. I suspect that Lynch has relied heavily on his real-life experience because it definitely shows that he knows what he’s talking about.”

“Wounded Prey was a hell of a read. At times harrowing – Lynch doesn't pull any punches when it comes to Slocum’s crimes or his past – it is a gripping read and the ending of the book leaves an opening for a whole series of books featuring Farrell and Kearns. And I can’t wait!”

“…I’m still in awe at what a presence Lynch has given Slocum and I can’t imagine any another character trying to enact Slocum’s perverse role. I’m sure there will be more Farrell and Kearns quests which I will be thrilled to read, but those who try and step up to fill Slocum’s shoes have a mighty big challenge ahead of them…I almost wish the hunt had never ended.”

“WOUNDED PREY is a non-stop thrill ride of a book. Unrelenting, brutal, scary, and at times skin-crawling in its depiction of atrocious crimes. And yet it is also funny, warming and believable…WOUNDED PREY is a great book,…”

“It’s not too uncommon to find a good novel, but it is more rare to come upon a novel as absorbing as this one, where reading it causes the external environment to drop away and time to pass without noting it. “Wounded Prey” is a very disturbing, graphic, violent, terrifying novel; but it is a novel that deserves a wide readership….author Sean Lynch… has become a must-read author for me.”